‘..the intuitive capacity of our senses for pattern recognition .. is still limited..’

‘Many such regularities of nature are recognized ‘intuitively’ by our senses .. our senses show us new patterns, this causes surprise and questioning. To such curiosity we owe the beginning of science.

Marvelous, however, as the intuitive capacity of our senses for pattern recognition is, it is still limited..’

‘Haptonomy demonstrates that faculties every human being should possess are nowadays more and more under-developed..’

‘Haptonomy demonstrates that faculties every human being should possess are nowadays more and more under-developed, they lie fallow, or are atrophied, if not totally absent. However, these faculties are of fundamental interest for contacts, interactions and human relationships. It is the absence of affective confirmation which hinders their development.’

[1] ‘..Most of them [these Spanish intellectual forerunners of the Austrian School of economics] were scholastics teaching morals and theology at the University of Salamanca, in the medieval Spanish city located 150 miles northwest of Madrid, close to the border of Spain with Portugal. These scholastics, mainly Dominicans and Jesuits, articulated the subjectivist, dynamic, and libertarian tradition on which, two-hundred-and-fifty years later, Carl Menger and his followers would place so much importance..’

[2] ‘Precisely because rationalization is a type of behavior common to many, people are watchful and even often suspect it where it is absent. Some are always ready to unmask their neighbors’ sly attempts to bolster their own self-respect. The most cleverly constructed legends of rationalization cannot in the long run withstand the repeated attacks of debunkers.

It is quite another thing with rationalization developed for the benefit of social groups. That can thrive luxuriantly because it encounters no criticism from the members of the group and because the criticism of outsiders is dismissed as obviously biased. One of the main tasks of historical analysis is to study the various manifestations of rationalization in all fields of political ideologies.’